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Finally, we did not account for differences between patients' severity of illness, variations in residents' critical or palliative care experience, comfort in caring for dying patients or the influence of the fellow or attending physician on management decisions.
In three instances, these changes, whether planned or hypothetical, reflected primarily palliative behaviors [ 10 ] - clarifying care goals, improving communication with the patient and family and obtaining fewer laboratory tests.
Though we could not make a clear differentiation between primary (when patients want to be sedated approaching the moment of death) and secondary sedation (when sedation results as a "side-effect" in otherwise refractory symptom control [ 46 ] , it must be clear to all, that the intention of sedation in the terminal and final phase is not a concealed form of euthanasia [ 47 ] . Under ethical aspects the requests for sedation to reduce consciousness to a state of unawareness need an individual and balanced approach, especially when the wish for sedation is not connected with the intolerability of physical or psychological distress This makes it necessary to discuss the problem of "terminal sedation" like other forms of therapeutic and existential support with patients and family members at an early stage in palliative care.
[ 35 36 37 ] . Certainly also the cultural background determines attitudes and view points to the goals of care and in which situations of "intolerable suffering" sedation is ethically acceptable [ 38 ] . In several retrospective and prospective surveys the reported frequency of sedation due to intractable symptoms in different palliative care settings ranged from 7-52% with increasing incidence especially for "existential suffering" [ 39 40 41 ] . Diagnostic criteria and clinical preconditions for the consideration of sedation in patients with far advanced disease have been described by several authors [ 42 43 44 ] , but aims, targets, types of sedation and decision making remain conflicting issues.
First, this study hints that at least some residents may be more inclined to think about the concurrent palliative needs of patients and families after considering the possibility that their patients may be dying.
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